Typical revisionist history. Bell Lab Murray Hill developed research edition UNIX v8, v9 and v10 but it's as if they didn't happen.
Most anyone can run UNIX v8 and v9 now.
https://github.com/ambiamber/Run-UNIX-v9

Bell Labs work was not done in a vacuum. Dennis Ritchie wrote symbolic links for UNIX v8 and UCB added his code to BSD.
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/26602/origin-of-unix-symbolic-links

The "HP UNIX PC" is the HP Integral PC (also known as the HP 9807A)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Integral_PC

I was feeling restless tonight, so I watched this. A nice episode with a lovely 1980s flavour to it.

Amazing to see Gary Kildall having a chat about UNIX. With his expertise in operating systems, you'd think he'd inject some architectural decision critiques here and there, but as a casual viewer, you probably would have no idea that this was the author of CP/M. An amazing guy, for sure.

As an early *nix adopter (Xenix in the 80's, Red Hat in the 90's, Debian/Ubuntu/Xubuntu now), I saw the power...but for the same reason VHS won out over the technologically superior Beta, MicroSoft won out. Its all about marketing. Also, the *nix variety is still not "plug and play" enough for non-geeks. You still have to hack some on the command line sometimes to get something to work. Still, my SO and some clients of mine are the ONLY reason I even have ANY MS based machines around...and most of those are VirtualBox VM's.

A wonderful blast from the past, and shows just how difficult it is to "predict" outside of marketing savvy.

Still enjoy watching the old shows that I watched so long ago.

These are all well known names in the world of computers, but the most important name is the legendary Gary Kildal founder of Digital Research. This guy wrote the operating system CP/M and it is arguable that all else that followed in the mini/micro computing world is down to him. He fought a technological battle with Microsoft in the early 80's but his heart was always in the acedemic world. Sadly no longer with us.

ok not a review but in the beginning they do a search and it comes up with few people from helsinki finland ... and linux was made by linus from helsinki! spooky
Anyone know who those people are?

This proves the dominance of todays 2006 unix operating system over the 1980's ms dos

it gives a little insight in UNIX and how things worked on PC 1985. Yet the view on the system itself is rather fast and does not present any deep insights.
I way quite amused of the way the commands in the shell are presented; you could hardly see something. But it is a good video, shwoing how Unix was used in 1985.

good footage and interviews give historical insight into the beginnings of unix type systems on the PC. THANK YOU FOR MAKING THESE GEMS AVAILABLE!!!

Carmen Chase